歲

歲 (radical 77, 止+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一戈竹竹 (YMIHH), four-corner 2125₃, composition ⿱止⿵戌𣥂)

• 濊, 饖, 劌, 噦, 薉, 翽, 奯

• KangXi: page 577, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16326
• Dae Jaweon: page 967, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1443, character 20
• Unihan data for U+6B72

Historical forms of the character 歲
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰʷads, *sqʰʷad) : semantic 步 + phonetic 戉 (OC *ɢʷad).

歲

1. (Classical Chinese) Jupiter (planet)
2. a year of the duodecennial Jovian orbital cycle or of the sexagenary cycle based upon it, (particularly) used in discussion of age.

   你現在幾歲？ / 你现在几岁？  ―  Nǐ xiànzài jǐ suì?  ―  How old are you now?

   我十八歲。 / 我十八岁。  ―  Wǒ shíbā suì.  ―  I am 18 years old.

   子曰：「歲寒，然後知松柏之後彫也。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   子曰：“岁寒，然后知松柏之后凋也。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: The Analects of Confucius, circa 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

   Zǐ yuē: “Suì hán, rán hòu zhī sōngbǎi zhī hòu diāo yě.” [Pinyin]

   The Master said, "When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves."

3. Tai Sui, the god representing each of these years
4. age
5. time; period
6. crop harvests of the year

Ages in 歲 are traditionally reckoned using the Chinese lunar calendar, considered as 1 year old at the moment of birth and increasing not during birthdays, but at the Chinese New Year.

• 年 (nián, “year < harvest”)
• 年紀／年纪 (niánjì)
• 年齡／年龄 (niánlíng)

• “Entry #9664”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): せい (sei), さい (sai)
• Kun: とし (toshi), よわい (yowai)

This character lacks JIS support and is not used in Japan. The character 歳 (U+6B73) is used instead.

歲 • (se) (hangeul 세, McCune–Reischauer se, Yale sey)

1. Age (counter)
2. Year

歲 (tuế, tuổi)

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